^12:2Nothing is hidden⁶ that will not be revealed,⁷ and nothing is secret that will not be made known. ^12:3So then⁸ whatever you have said in the dark will be heard in the light, and what you have whispered⁹ in private rooms¹⁰ will be proclaimed from the housetops.¹¹

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Luke 12:2: Nothing is covered up that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known.

Footnotes

6 Or “concealed.”
7 I.e., be revealed by God. The passive voice verbs here (“be revealed,” be made known”) see the revelation as coming from God. The text is both a warning about bad things being revealed and an encouragement that good things will be made known, though the stress with the images of darkness and what is hidden in vv. 2–3 is on the attempt to conceal.
8 Or “because.” Understanding this verse as a result of v. 2 is a slightly better reading of the context. Knowing what is coming should impact our behavior now.
9 Grk “spoken in the ear,” an idiom. The contemporary expression is “whispered.”
10 The term translated private rooms refers to the inner room of a house, normally without any windows opening outside, the most private location possible ( ταμεῖον 2).
11 The expression “proclaimed from the housetops” is an idiom for proclaiming something publicly (L&N 7.51). Roofs of many first century Jewish houses in Judea and Galilee were flat and had access either from outside or from within the house. Something shouted from atop a house would be heard by everyone in the street below.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Nothing is covered up that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known. Therefore whatever you have said in the dark shall be heard in the light, and what you have whispered in private rooms shall be proclaimed on the housetops.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

There is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, or hidden that will not be made known. What you have said in the dark will be heard in the daylight, and what you have whispered in the ear in the inner rooms will be proclaimed from the roofs.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

There is nothing covered that won’t be uncovered, nothing hidden that won’t be made known. Therefore, whatever you have said in the dark will be heard in the light, and what you have whispered in an ear in private rooms will be proclaimed on the housetops.

NLTNew Living Translation

The time is coming when everything that is covered up will be revealed, and all that is secret will be made known to all. Whatever you have said in the dark will be heard in the light, and what you have whispered behind closed doors will be shouted from the housetops for all to hear!

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

But nothing is concealed that will not be revealed, and secret that will not be made known. Therefore everything that you have said in the dark will be heard in the light, and what you have whispered in the inner rooms will be proclaimed on the housetops.

KJV 1900King James Version

For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known. Therefore whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light; and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.

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